Ticket #154
(closed defect: invalid)

Windows: Please update shipped MinGW

Reported by:

dwagenknecht

Owned by:

refold

Priority:

major

Milestone:

Component:

Windows installer

Keywords:

Cc:

Description

On Windows the Haskell Plattform comes with MinGW which is an excellent choice and makes work with Haskell much more seamless. What realy brakes my neck though is that the version shipped is really really old with GCC 3.x and so on...essentially I always follow the qtHaskell hack and overwrite the MinGW folder with the one shipped with Qt SDK.

If there are reasons to stick to an old & slow gcc, then please make the addition of MinGW to the PATH an optional thing (default of course on/checked so that novice users get a good experience) so C/C++ developers are not suddenly confronted with an inconsistent buildchain.